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DR Congo prisoners dying from hunger, says NGO

At a prison in Bunia, the capital of northeastern Ituri province, 17 inmates have died since April

Hundreds of detainees die each year in severely overcrowded and unsanitary prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which prison officials and NGOs say is largely due to a lack of food and medicine.

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